Patient-centered decision making: the role of the baseline SNOT-22 in predicting outcomes for medical management of chronic rhinosinusitis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

For patients with chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS), the decision to elect continued medical management vs surgery is complex and involves tradeoffs between benefits, risks, and overall effectiveness of each therapy. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether baseline disease-specific quality of life (QOL) can assist in predicting outcomes in patients with refractory CRS who elect continued medical management.

Methods

CRS patients electing medical management were enrolled in a prospective, multi-institutional cohort study. Patients were stratified into pretreatment 22-item Sino-Nasal Outcome Test (SNOT-22) subgroups based on 10-point score increments (eg, 10 to 19, 20 to 29, 30 to 39, etc.) to capture potential outcome differences by baseline SNOT-22 disease b

SUBMITTER: Steele TO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4921291 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature